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Cesàro Loves Me

March 7, 2020

Plucking petals, an ordinary person alternates 'loves me / loves me not,' while Cesàro averages the series to 'half-loves me.'

Drawn for an essay by James Propp.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2020-03-07-ces-ro-loves-me/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

[Ordinary Person] picking petals: "Loves me… loves me not… loves me… loves me not…"

[Cesàro] "Eh, half-loves me."

Topics
Calculus › Series › Divergent SeriesCalculus › Series › Cesàro SummationCalculus › Series › Grandi's Series
Level
CalculusCollege
Themes
MathematiciansFamily & RelationshipsNature & Science
People
Ernesto Cesàro James Propp